Note: English translation of title: Japanese kanji in the newspaper -- kanji frequency index from the Asahi newspaper on CD-ROM

Note: Information for cells 7 and 8 of the electronic database was taken from this publication with the permission of Yokoyama and the publisher

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Other co-authors: Yayoi Miyaoka and Masahiro Kawakami

Contents: File 1. Explanation of the Database for the 1,945 basic Japanese kanji (J-1945D) ; File 2. Database for the 1945 basic Japanese Kanji (J-1945D)

The Japanese government published a list of the 1,945 most commonly-used basic kanji in 1981. This database contains 27 seperate descriptions (cells) of each basic Japanese kanji which cover such fields as classification, frequency of use, number of strokes, pronunciation, etc.